Cloud Computing

World IPv6 Day June 8, 2011 -- Get Ready

An excellent article by Stephen Shakland on CNET about the conversion from IPv4 to IPv6.  The crunch is looming, and conversion to the longer IPv6 Internet addresses looms. He rightly points out that in some ways it's similar to the Y2K problem: some hardware and software will not be able to handle the new addresses. It's not a lights-out scenario (despite a lot of media hype Y2K wasn't) but there are important points raised.

Cloud Computing on WAMC's Roundtable: Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How better to celebrate the Winter Solstice than Jesse and Joe Donahue discussing Cloud Computing. What is it, will 2011 be the year of the cloud, and what does it mean?

There are two main aspects to cloud computing:

Reforming Federal Information Technology Management

Here it is: 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.

And they're not kidding. From page 1:

Shift to “Cloud First” policy . Each agency will identify three “must move” services within three months, and move one of those services to the cloud within 12 months and the remaining two within 18 months. 

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